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It’s Monday and that means….

It’s Monday again.  We had a busy week last week with the Princess’s birthday and an out of town trip to celebrate.  I love the estivities, but it means that my usual weekend tasks of menu planning and grocery shopping have been put off until today.

This week, I’m going to be cooking from “Dinner Made Easy”.  It’s a great service from Betty Crocker.com that focuses on getting dinner on the table quickly.  I’ve been getting their e-mail newsletter for a while, but thought that maybe it was time to give a few recipes a try.

Monday
Southwest Chicken Skillet

I might serve it with spanish rice or corn (Littlebit’s favorite) but it really is a fairly complete meal.
Tuesday

Slow cooker pork chops with cherry apple stuffing and veggies

Wednesday
Chicken breasts with creamy mushroom gravy, asparagus and fresh bread


Thursday

Tamale Pot pie and veggies
Friday

Bacon wrapped filet mignon, crash hot potatoes and veggies and onion rings.

Saturday

Pizza Night!

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Menu Plan Monday

Since I’m done eating out of the freezer and haven’t yet decided when I’m going to undertake another Once a Month cooking session (You can follow the plan I do at onceamonthmom.com) we’re back to planning our menu around here.

Monday

Pasta bolognase recipe from the “Cook This not That” cookbook.

Garlic bread and salad

Tuesday

Trying a new recipe for Hamburger stroganoff (one of Big Daddy’s personal favorite) with veggies

Wednesday

Chicken Fried Rice, egg rolls and sugar snap peas

Thursday

Sweet Italian Chicken, crash hot potatoes and veggies

Friday

The Princess turns 10, so her choice.  YAY!

Saturday

Pizza for more Princess birthday festivities.

Sunday

Bacon wrapped fillet Mignon, potatoes and veggies.

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Menu Plan Monday

It’s supposed to snow here today.  Do you hear me Internet?  It is OCTOBER!  This is not acceptable!!

Ignore the crocheted mice.  Notice the SNOW!!

Ignore the crocheted mice. Notice the SNOW!!

That was Valentine’s Day, ya’ll.  It’s not supposed to snow before Halloween.  We do NOT live in Canada!!

Monday

On the run due to other plans, so will probably pick up something quick-like from the store

Tuesday

Book Club

Freezer beef stew and fresh bread

Wednesday

Baked ziti, chicken parmesan and salad

Thursday

soccer practice which I’m already praying will be canceled

Beef Stroganoff, egg noodles and veggies

Friday

Pizza and movie night!

Saturday

Big Daddy and I are going out on a date.  So long as my MIL will babysit.  Won’t you, lovely MIL??

Sunday

Broccoli cheese soup and fresh bread, maybe bread bowls if I’m feeling saucy.

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Menu Plan Monday

Can I say that Once a Month cooking rocks!  I can?  Sweet.  It does and I just said it.  I probably said it last week too,but I’m saying it again.  I thought that spending two weeks cooking and doubling meals made the two weeks off worth it, but in truth, that was totally counter productive and a waste of work.   If I was going to have another kid, I’d probably name her (because we don’t make boys) Once a Month Mom.

So, it makes my menu planning pretty easy

Monday

Chicken Marsala, pasta and asparagus

Tuesday

soccer practice

Beef Stew and fresh bread

Wednesday

Mexican cornbread casserole and salad

Thursday

soccer practice

Deconstructed broccoli stuffed chicken breasts and veggies

On the go with previous plans for the weekend.

Last week, I noted that we were having caramel apple pork chops for dinner.  They were pretty. I wish I’d have taken a picture, but they were so good all of us sort of inhaled them.  I guess 800+ reviews and an overall rating of 4.5 stars on allrecipes.com really does mean something.  It means yummy.

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Weekly Menu, week beginning 9/28

Well, we did it.  This weekend we tried out Once a Month Mom’s September Once a Month cooking plan.  We convered on my MIL yesterday afternoon and she helped with the cooking and kid managing and Big Daddy and I went to town.  It took 6.5 horus from start to finish (from beginning to clean up) and our outside freezer is stocked with 17 dinners (we halved the recipes based on our family’s needs), three separate breakfast options and four separate lunch options.

I’m so excited about not having to plan dinner for 20 of the next 28 days and I’m more than a little sure that this new plan will save us money.

Again, we halved the plan and figure we spent about $200 to do so.  We will be using the meals four days a week (one day a week will be our pizza night, one day a week will be wev. and one night a week will be special requests, grilling, entertaining, etc).

Next time, we will be sure to do ALL of the suggested early preparations EARLY.  Big Daddy spent the first hour or more chopping which slowed down our cooking prep.

Monday

Eating a Chili’s to support St. Jude’s hospital to support the fight against childhood cancer.  Even though I just spent a ga-million hours cooking, we’re going out to eat at Chili’s to offer our support.  If you can manage it,  you should too.

Tuesday

Soccer practice @6p

BBQ pork sammies and sweet potato fries

Wednesday

park play date at 4p

Deconstructed stuffed chicken breasts and pasta

Thursday

soccer practice 5:30p

Beef stroganoff, egg noodles and veggies

Friday

Pizza and a movie night.

Saturday

Usually on the run

Sunday

Caramel Apple Pork Chops mashed potatoes and fresh green beans.

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